I feel like Brian has to disclose something every time he mentions anything ever published by any company in Japan. He’s overly cautious, he’s very prolific, Japan’s business are all inextricably tied to each other in some way or another? All three?

You’re betting chips, which are converted from in-game money, which can be bought with actual money. This isn’t even a loot box situation, where you are guaranteed to get _something_, even if that something is basically worthless.

...and LA’s Overwatch team

That’s the thing.  Random priest?  Rock on indeed.  Your priest?  That might fall in somewhere in the friend/sibling/parent section depending on the age of your priest and your relationship with them.

Is this a priest, or your priest?  Is this the babysitter you hired that is currently supposed to be watching your kid, or your babysitter while you are a small child?

I wonder what would have happened if the final batter had bunted and got on first.

Judgment*

That other line change about being worthy of my grace felt like they were trying to play up some God/Christ-like meaning to what Kaworu was saying. But that makes more sense if you keep the other line as “I love you”, since God loving His children is a common thing to say without anything sexual about it.

If my employer was being sued and a reporter asked me to comment on the thing the lawsuit was about I’d probably avoid talking about it too.

I really want it to come out that Harper has decided that all the effort of playing the best baseball isn’t worth it. So he’s just going to work to rule, coast along for 13 years and get paid his $300 million or so.

I choose to translate 絞める as pickle.  They soaked her chest in brine in the remake. 

If you just scroll down the feed, singing each one in your head, it builds this pressure that seems to increase forever (like that pattern of notes that feels like it’s going forever higher) because you never reach “Turtles in a half-shell, turtle power!”.

A non-Japanese guy I know was in Japan with his Japanese girlfriend. The two of them got on the escalator and stood on the left with the 3 people in front of them.

Why did ポケモン5分モデリング get translated as 5 Minute Pokemon Renders and not 5 Minute Pokemon Modelling?

I thought Kotaku didn’t delete articles?  You should have left both of those nearly identical articles up forever so we can all chuckle about the lack of coordination there.

I don’t really understand this one. They’re upset that they bunted to break up a no-hitter. But they failed to defend the batter from hitting the ball with his bat and getting on base. Does a no-hitter feel good if you know the opponent didn’t actually try to get a hit?

I couldn’t name 6 people on the LPGA tour either. I don’t think I can come up with 6 people on the PGA tour. I’m not big on golf, doesn’t seem like that big a deal.

The team is the Raptors, not the Velociraptors.  I know what it was meant to be, but you could pretty easily pivot away from dinosaurs entirely and change the logo to some bird of prey instead without having to change the name.

All I want to do is play with my friends, Nintendo. I want to see everything the people in my (not really) universal friends list have made.

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